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AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports State Persistence and Bookmarks for embedded dashboards
Amazon QuickSight now supports State Persistence for embedded dashboards (and consoles) for registered users. Embedded QuickSight dashboards now remember filter selections between visits when accessed as a registered QuickSight user. Registered users can also Bookmark specific views of the embedded dashboard, making it simple to access your preferences from one convenient location. For example, you […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports VPC Connections via public APIs with Multi-AZ support
Today, Amazon QuickSight announces the general availability of managing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connections via public APIs and an enhanced UX with Multi-AZ support. APIs enable you to create, update, delete, list and describe VPC connections. This launch enables you to create private VPC connections as part of your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) efforts with full […]

GCP – Dialing up the impact of digital natives in the MENA region with Google Cloud
Entrepreneurs with the passion to drive positive impact have been selecting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as the launchpad for their businesses since 2015, based on insights from Google Cloud’s digital natives unit. Today, the region is taking center stage due to the thousands of startups, digital natives, and web3 companies thriving. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Redshift Data Sharing now available in AWS China Regions
Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure way to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters, is now available in AWS China regions. Customers can now share data to provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups in the same account and different accounts, as long as they are within the same region. Redshift Data Sharing enables instant, granular, […]

AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis simplifies creating new clusters in the AWS Management Console
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now makes it simpler and faster for you to get started with setting up a new MemoryDB cluster. The new console experience offers streamlined navigation and minimal settings required to configure a cluster, in just a few clicks. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure DNS Private Resolver is available in 8 additional regions
Azure DNS Private Resolver is now available in West US, Canada East, Qatar Central, UAE North, Australia Southeast, Norway East, Norway East, and Poland Central. Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based on incoming HTTP requests. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint. Read More for the details.